Hyphenated Identity: Immigrant Mindscape in Bharati Muhherjee’s Tiger’s Daughter
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home, host, alienation, nowhereness, assimilationAbstract
Separation from home and nation, culture-shock, problems of alienation and assimilation form the matrix of
immigrant writing. The degree of estrangement, essentially individualistic, depends on various factors like
education , background, nation and culture of the immigrant as well as the receptive capacity of the host
country. Failure to forge new ties instead of the severed ones leads cultural transplants to remain as eternal
aliens. In The Tiger’s Daughter Bharati Mukherjee recreates the complexities confronting an immigrant who
is suspended between two worlds, two homes and two cultures.
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